Running From The Hill
Democrats bailing out

Sleepy Harry Reid, who did
    everything but snore,
Insists that in retirement
    he's as exciting as before.

Forgetting their majority,
    the Democrats are on the run
Leaving Lieberman behind –
    Leno's only hole in one.

But will making fun of Joe
    compensate for the malarkey
Of ending up with Mitch McConnell's
    "Say, No" oligarchy,

And no Chubby Mary Landrau
    to earmark all the pork
While Broadway Charley Schumer's
    getting nothing for New York?

Plus who's going to need a lobbyist
    when Senate seats have been endowed
By greedy corporations who,
    like Nike, won't be cowed

By irate customers who made
    sure Tiger's taste in dollies
Resulted in his advertisers'
    suicidal follies?

It kind of makes you wonder
    if Scalia's team forgot
The backlash implications
    of a customer boycott.

When the internet discloses
    contributions coast-to-coast,
Some guilty corporations
    could discover that they're toast.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/28/10

To 'Harry Reid & Associates'
To 'Scalia's Court'
To 'Obama to Party: Don’t ‘Run for the Hills’
To 'Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit '